Mine definitely goes above 105, in fact today I got in and saw “no connectivity” and touched the back of the display and it was incredibly hot.
I am wondering if the high temperature is causing the intermittent black screen too.

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I am confident that there is no overheat protection on the Model 3. It's a feature with an enable/disable toggle on the Model S/X and given the power requirement Tesla is not going to force it on. It's possible there's a bug in a version of the software that causes a nascent overheat protection feature to activate on some vehicles, but I am still inclined to believe that the people reporting it are mistaken.

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Couldn't they add "auto pre-conditioning"? When I've seen the inside temperature get to 125-130, and turned on the air, the temp goes down pretty fast. All you'd need is the air to come on for a few minutes.

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The battery is liquid-cooled and uses the same compressor as the cabin AC system though I believe it's a separate coolant loop. I don't know if it will cool the battery when the car is not started or plugged in for L2+ charging.

Couldn't they add "auto pre-conditioning"? When I've seen the inside temperature get to 125-130, and turned on the air, the temp goes down pretty fast. All you'd need is the air to come on for a few minutes.

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Couldn't they add "auto pre-conditioning"? When I've seen the inside temperature get to 125-130, and turned on the air, the temp goes down pretty fast. All you'd need is the air to come on for a few minutes.

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Yesterday the interior temps read 91F and I could hear a fan noise from the car. It's not as loud as Model S/X cars when their cooling systems kick in, but you can hear it if you put your head near the passenger hood area. I doubt that was cabin overheat protection though, as just last week the interior hit 143F. Fan noise was very likely just the battery cooling system.